Women's Friendship in Literature

Literature & Fiction

Todd, Janet

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

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The Sign of Angellica

Columbia Univ. Pr.

The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1600-1800

With Mary Wollstonecraft and her A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792, a modern female consciousness came clearly into being, one that tied the mind to the body. This beautifully written biography, the first new study of Mary Wollstonecraft in thirty years, argues that it is her life and letters that are her most lasting legacy. 
Her story reads like a novel -- extraordinarily scandalous in conventional terms (a close involvement with a woman, two male lovers, an illegitimate child, and a habit of initiating amorous relationships), yet in her own terms always principled and highly moral. She strove to reconcile integrity and sexual desire, the duties and needs of a woman, motherhood and intellectual life, domesticity and fame.

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Mary Wollstonecraft

Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Gender, Theory, and Religion)

Winner of the 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions. In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.\nOtero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels

Andre Deutsch

Over the past 200 years—although never more than in recent decades—Jane Austen's sharp and witty novels have delighted a diverse and devoted international readership. With scant information about her life available, fans have a bottomless hunger for details about the woman behind the work. Jane Austen feeds that appetite with background on her relationships with family and friends; on the contemporary attitudes that shaped Austen and her writing; and on the settings that inspired her and feature in her stories. Austenites will particularly treasure the 15 pieces of removable memorabilia, which include facsimiles of early manuscripts, a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels, and a letter from Austen's father to the publisher Thomas Cadell that was returned with the words “Rejected by return of post” written on it.

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels (Y)

A delightful collection of facts and insights devoted to the inimitable Jane Austen! It’s a truth universally acknowledged: Jane Austen is one of the most popular and loved authors in English literature. The Jane Austen Treasury brings this great novelist into focus, illuminating the attitudes and customs that shaped her life, times, and work. It explores the themes and historical context of each of her novels, revealing the complexities that underlie her timeless romances. Among the subjects examined are: <ul>
<li>The marriage proposal that Austen accepted, only to change her mind</li>
<li>The mock grown-up fiction she wrote as a child</li>
<li>Her personal connections to the Napoleonic Wars</li>
<li>How her love of puzzles and verbal games influenced her writings</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
</ul>

The Jane Austen Treasury: A Collection of Fascinating Insights into Her Life, Her Time and Her Novels

This is the definitive illustrated guide to Jane Austen’s life and times—including her personal relationships and the attitudes of the period that shaped her . . . and were in turn shaped by her work. For the past 200 years—although never more than in recent decades—Jane Austen's sharp and witty novels have delighted a diverse and devoted readership. Her fans have a bottomless hunger for details about the woman behind the work, and this biography feeds their appetite with background on her relationships with family and friends, contemporary attitudes, and the places where she lived and set her novels, from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa. Drawing on personal archives, Jane Austen offers an insightful view of the author; it features rare and fascinating documents, including early manuscripts; a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels; a letter from Jane’s father to the publisher Thomas Cadell (returned with the words “Rejected by return of post” written on it); and pages from the unfinished manuscript of Sanditon. Reissue in a new format, with previously removable documents printed on the page.

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Books by Todd, Janet

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Women's Friendship in Literature

The Sign of Angellica

The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1600-1800

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

Mary Wollstonecraft

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels (Y)

The Jane Austen Treasury: A Collection of Fascinating Insights into Her Life, Her Time and Her Novels

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels (Y)

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life